Water Heater ESP

With today being Charlie's last day of summer vacation I had a full day planned which included taking the kids to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (per Charlie's request) and to our favorite playground at Cambridge Commons. 

Before we left I was trying to get a few things organized and ran down to the office to print something. I finished printing and as I was leaving the office I happened to notice Charlie's scooter leaning against the door of the closet that houses the hot water heater. For some reason this prompted me to go over, pull the scooter away from the door, open the door and inspect the water heater. 

Which turned out to be leaking. 

Fortunately the water had not gotten to the finished part of the basement at all, but probably in a matter of a few more hours or days we would have had 55 gallons in our finished basement. 

So instead of a fun day out with the kids we spent the day hanging out at home while the hot water heater was replaced to the tune of $2400 because its a high efficiency power vent blah blah blah and needed to be replaced with the same thing. 

But still better than having 55 gallons of water in the basement :-)